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Advice For Aspiring Female Tech Entrepreneurs: A Perspective From The Developing World

It is an open secret that women are outsiders when it comes to tech entrepreneurship, both in the developed and developing economies. In 1984, 37 percent of undergraduate c...

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To Fix The Gender Gap, Startups Need To Think About Diversity From The Beginning

An entrepreneur builds a startup; chances are that he’s a man. And then it’s likely he hires more men as the fledgling business takes on early employees. That s...

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How Do We Keep Girls In School?

Following the World Development Report (2012), we discuss policies that can change the price of schooling under three categories: (i) direct costs; (ii) indirect costs; and...

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Why Women Need A Bigger Role In Peace Negotiations

Women across the globe are playing a distinctly important role as advocates for peace-building and security, for women and men. At Oxfam we see this around the world, and t...

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Gender Parity Could Add 60% To India’s GDP By 2025

“The report analysed 15 gender equality indicators for 95 countries home to 93 per cent of the world’s women and 97 per cent of the world’s GDP”. An...

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The Right Way To Tackle Gender Inequality In The Legal Profession

In 1978, when I completed my Oxford law degree, we were told we would have to be patient, it could take 30 or 40 years before there was gender equality among the judiciary....

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Gender Inequality Still A Challenge – Activists

GIRLS are kidnapped and sexually abused, the perpetrators walk away without being arrested, capital offences like murder and rape are never followed up. Drunkenness, polyga...

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What Is The Gender Gap In Graduate Earnings?

A new study using big data has confirmed that those who complete university can expect to earn, on average, a decent premium for their degree. This alone won’t come a...

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Gender Inequality Is Costing The World $28 Trillion

A new report quantifies what enlightened employers have long known: gender parity in the workforce has enormous value. A new study from the McKinsey Global Institute analyz...

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New Study Shows Gender Inequality In Photojournalism Is Real

While the news photography industry has spent the last decade bemoaning the diminishing numbers of photography positions in large news organizations, a small group of resea...

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